Flashback: John Huston and Olivia de Havilland – You must Remember This

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She was the raven-haired beauty why-white persona was forged by her supporting roles in Gone with the wind And Several Errol Flynn Swashbucklers. He was the real-life swashbuckler, the heroic lover/drinker/fighter with directorial debut The Maltese FalconWas an enormous success. They met when Huston Directed De Havilland in His Second Film, In this our lifeAnd began an affair which would continue control, on and off, through the decade, as he joined the army and made several controversial documentaries expects exposing dark aspects of the war experience, and as she wagged War of her own, Taking Warner Brothers to Court to Challenge the Indecent Servitude of the Star Contract System. De Havilland’s Lawsuit Went All the way to the California Supreme Court, and Had Massive Implications on the Future of Labor in Hollywood and Beyond.

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Special Thanks this week to Rian johnsonWho Played John Huston.

Olivia de havilland is still alive, living in france and, judging by her most recent interview, she’s stil, at Nearly 99 years old, lucid and fascinating. I should note that in that linked interview, which I came out In Talking Briefly About Their Supposed Affair in this Episode, I Probably Should have used a Qualifier Like “Reported.” There are, in fact, many reports suggesting that the pair did have an off-screen relationship; Still, I Can’t Think of Any Reason with Doubt A 98 Year Old Woman When She Ins away that the hot affair that she is rumored to have had 65 years earliers earliers earliers That said, she can protest all she wants, but the idea that she and flyn was so pervasive that, true or otherwise, it’s part of olivia de havilland’s character. And that’s what we do on this podcast: talk about myths, legacies, and the collective imaginary.

Certainly, Most of What John Huston Has Said About His Own Life Should Be Assume To Be Some Kind of Spin or Exaggeration, Although in his case he’s he’s he’s more likely to invent to inn Downplay reports that one did. Huston’s Entertaining Autobiography an open book was a source for this episode, but weighed with a grain of salt against lawnce lawle’s hustons, john huston: couhn huston: cough and art will jeefreey Meyers; And mark harris’ five came back, which goes into much further detail on huston’s war documents, and particularly the stagings of the battle of san pietro, than I was free to include here.

As far as I can tell, there has not been a biography devoted solely to de havilland. There is Robert Matzen’s errol and olivia, which I flipped through but didn’T really put MUCH Stock in, as it’s obsessed with the idea of ​​a flyn/de havilland Afair to the point to the point of concession. I did not bother with sisters: the story of olivia de havilland and joan fontaine by charles Higham, Because Higham is a Controversial Figure Involved in Next Week’s Episode, But WHEN I Inevly Episode on Olivia and Her Sister Joan, I’M Sure I’ll Look ITO Ito.

To fill in the gaps, i relied on two articles buried deep in the files at the Margaret Herrick Library: “In the state of california de havilland vs warner brothers: a trial decision that marked a Turning Point” JL YECK, American Classic Screen Magazine, May/June 1982; And a transcript of talk with students de havilland gave at afi’s institute for advanced film studies, on October 23, 1974. I also watched the huston episode of creativity with bills, and live Audiabook of the first few chapters of anjelica huston’s memoir, a story lately Told.